Selection Of Top Stories…

A Four Ball comprising members from Adare and Rathbane Golf Clubs in County Limerick has won the 5th annual Clare Ultimate Golf Challenge, the final of which was held at Dromoland Castle Golf & Country Club on Thursday (6 November).Bart Moylan, Alphonsus Franklin, Fred Hofker and Pat Newman were … [Read More...]

THE MAN who led the “golden era” of Limerick theatre and cinema, Tom English, has passed away.The former manager of the famous Savoy Theatre in the city died peacefully at St John’s Hospital on Monday evening, aged 85.From County Limerick stock, he spent his childhood years in Butlerstown, Co … [Read More...]

THE new Irish National Opera has launched its 2018 programme, which includes a show in Limerick later this year.The body, which was created through the merger of two award-winning companies, Opera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera, launched its programme in Dublin this week and announced … [Read More...]

LIMERICK FC supporters will be heartened to learn that preparations are already well under way for the 2011 Airtricity League First Division campaign.
Hopes were very high in 2010 that the Super Blues could make the jump to the Premier Division and although Pat Scully's men were more than … [Read More...]

Scottish knights, glamerous grannies and an overworked Garda band - for one week in the summer of ‘78, there wasn’t much going on in Newcastle West that failed to draw a smile.The Ten Knights of Desmond summer festival has since vanished into local lore, but 35 years ago it was a barmy, … [Read More...]